Jay Ward, longtime president of Ward Lumber Company of Jay, has been thinking about transitioning his 130-year family business for over two decades. In consul
Don Morrison (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) Katie Bidelspach and her son pose the Riverside Thrift Store in Wilmington (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) Carol McDonald and Barbara Signorelli work the checkout. (Provided photo Naj Wikoff) Nancy Rine (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
Katie Bidelspach and her son pose the Riverside Thrift Store in Wilmington (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
In Wilmington, the Riverside Thrift Store is a thriving asset led by volunteers from the Whiteface Community United Methodist Church. Thrift shops exist in many communities such as Elizabethtown, Lake Placid, Saranac Lake and Wilmington, but they are not as old a community asset as one might think.
The Ausable River Association moved its annual AuSable River cleanup from September to Saturday, April 24 this year, shifting the effort from Carpenter’s F
Craigarden farm store sign on Route 9N (Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
The late architect and fine artist Paul Nowicki, and his wife, the ceramicist Barbara Tam, dreamed of creating an artist residency on their Hurricane Road property in Keene. And they worked hard to make it happen. Nowicki designed and built a beautiful studio and, in 2000, they launched the Hurricane Mountain Clay Studio. A fire hampered their initial effort, but Nowicki rebuilt, and they pushed forward. Facing an early death, Nowicki suggested to his wife Barbara that Michelle Drozid, who he knew through the ceramics community, be invited to carry the vision forward. Drozid established the nonprofit Craigarden, expanding upon Nowicki’s idea.
(Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
(Provided photo Naj Wikoff)
Do you know what or where your ulnar nerve is? I had no idea until two weekends ago when my brother Chris pointed it out. Chris, Q for short, is a board-certified medical illustrator based in Princeton, New Jersey. He and his wife Eva have purchased a cottage in Wilmington, where they hope to move to within a few years. Q knows the human body inside and out. He illustrates how problems within it can be fixed by surgery or other means in various atlases of human anatomy, animated videos and medical journals. So when I have questions about how aspects of the body function, he’s my go-to guy. Two weeks ago, I was over visiting them and mentioned that my left shoulder and elbow ached, and the third and little finger were tingling like crazy. He pointed to places on his arm down to the edge of my left hand and asked I felt pain in any of them.